Sitting Bull and Bill Allison Journey to Yanktonais Camp
Col G R Norris recounts the 1881-82 Montana Sioux encounters. Sitting Bull fears whites, aids and resists, then is arrested after a council with Major Ilges. An expedition to Sitting Bull's camp precedes a punitive campaign against Yanktonais and a brutal winter imprisonment at Fort Buford.
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Sitting Bull
Bull Head
Bull
Milk River
Rascal
Fort Benton
Thomas A. Cummings
U. S
Montana
Idaho
Wolf Point
Poplar River
Ilges
Minneapolis
Agency
Terry
Times
Charles 8. Diehl
Diehl
Major Ilges
Bill Allison
Yanktonais
Alison
Allison
Sphinx
Dieh
Fort Buford
Chicago
Sibley
Missouri
The
San Antonio
Ghost stories of early day Butte and the imaginative reporter
In early Butte reporters fueled a ghost craze with Dublin gulch hauntings. Silver Dick Butler created the first spook tale at the Odin mine, sparking nightly visits by crowds to eerie sites. The ghost lore spread to groggeries and railway cut scenes, thrilling readers and drawing pranksters and skeptics alike.
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Butte
Shadowland
Silver Dick” Butler
William Jennings Bryan
Dublin Gulch
Cork
Limerick
Butler
Patsy
Micky
Centerville
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Montana News‘paper Association
G. R. Norris
Northwest
Standing Rock Reservation
Col. G. R
Bill) Norris
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